Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.